birthday quotes

It wastheafternoon of myeighty-first birthday, and Iwas in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

-Wilson
  Earthly Powers, opening lines.

It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

- Annie Dillard
  Of self-consciousness. Pilgrim at  Tinker Creek, ch.6.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

- Dervla Murphy
  Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

- Christina Georgina Rossetti
  Goblin Market and Other Poems,'A Birthday'.

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present.It was her birthday.Would Ihavegot married during the football season? And anyway it wasn't Rochdale, it was Rochdale reserves.

- Bill (William) Shankly
Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1990).

For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

- Alison Uttley
  Carts and Candlesticks.